Poetry Spoken Here

Poetry Spoken Here

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Poetry Spoken Here episodes

  • Episode #016 Randy Brooks and Robert Hass
    Haiku master Randy Brooks is featured. Brooks reads his poems, discusses teaching haiku, and the aural and social traditions of the form. Brooks is proprietor of Brooks Books haiku publishing house. Robert Hass’ book, "The Essential Haiku," is reviewed in the second part of the show.
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    34 min
  • Episode #015 John Sierpinski and Freesia McKee
    Wisconsin poet, John Sierpinski reflects on his personal poetic journey and how he has been influenced by beat poets. Freesia McKee discusses her experience bringing poetry into prisons.
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    35 min
  • Episode #014: Poetry and Music [SPECIAL EPISODE]
    Poetry and music is the subject of this special episode which features historic recordings by Carl Sandburg, William Butler Yeats and Allen Ginsberg as well as interviews with singer-songwriter Brian Laidlaw and composer Ellie Roark.
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    58 min
  • Episode #013 Jacqueline Harris And Maria Mazziotti Gillan's Writing Book
    Chicago performance poet, Jacqueline Nicole Harris discusses her inspirations, and reads examples of her passionate work. In the second part of the show, Maria Mazziotti Gillan talks about her book, "Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: How to Find the Courage to Tell Your Stories" full of advice and wisdom to help writers unlock their creative potential. We also offer a quick remembrance of Frank Sinatra's album of tone poems originally released in 1956.
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    33 min
  • Episode #012 Andy Karol and Poetry App SlamFind
    Andy Karol is a Chicago performance poet whose work has been called “raw, visceral, sensual, and rich in imagery.” She muses about her creative process, the anxieties of parenting, and discusses what inspires her. Learn more about Andy and see videos of her performing on her website: http://www.andykarol.com/
    In the second part of the show, we talk with NYC’s Mason Granger. When he is not performing as one third of the Mayhem Poets, he is busy building a poetry app, SlamFind, designed to help poetic travelers locate slam venues and poets across North America. Learn more about SlamFind and sign up yourself or your event at: http://www.slamfind.com/.
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    41 min
  • Episode #011 The Poetry of Family and Home [SPECIAL EPISODE]
    A special holiday episode of Poetry Spoken Here examining poetry's long relationship with the themes of family and home. The show opens with a reflection on how those themes are used in Homer's Odyssey, the second oldest work in the western cannon. Next, a conversation with Italian-American poet Maria Maziotti Gillan about her work reflecting on her upbringing in an immigrant family. In the final part of the show, we talk to Bill Schmidtkunz of Sutton, Alaska whose personal search for home lead him ever north.
    50 min
  • Episode #011 The Poetry of Family and Home [SPECIAL EPISODE]
    A special holiday episode of Poetry Spoken Here examining poetry's long relationship with the themes of family and home. The show opens with a reflection on how those themes are used in Homer's Odyssey, the second oldest work in the western cannon. Next, a conversation with Italian-American poet Maria Maziotti Gillan about her work reflecting on her upbringing in an immigrant family. In the final part of the show, we talk to Bill Schmidtkunz of Sutton, Alaska whose personal search for home lead him ever north.
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    50 min
  • Episode #010 Emily Calvo and Anja Notanja Sieger
    Poet and artist Emily Calvo discusses her new book, "Lending Color to the Otherwise Absurd" and her recent battle with cancer. While in the hospital, she blogged her experience daily at https://emilyshead.wordpress.com. In the second part of the show, we talk to performance writer Anja Notanja Sieger who creates spontaneous written pieces for any occasion. We talk to her about her wide-ranging projects.
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    31 min
  • Episode #009 Poetry Therapy [SPECIAL EPISODE]
    A special themed episode of Poetry Spoken Here examining the theory and practice of Poetry Therapy. We talk to Lynn Kapitan, recent past-president of the American Art Therapy Association, Nick Mazza, founding and current editor of the Journal of Poetry Therapy, and Beth Jacobs, a psychotherapist who uses poetry and expressive writing in her practice.
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    44 min
  • Episode #008 Sharon Auberle, Michael Czarnecki's 48 State Poetry Tour
    Poet-photographer, Sharon Auberle, of Door County, WI is featured. Sharon has published several books of poetry, and her photography has graced the pages of her own work as well as that of other poets. For nine years she has authored the website, Mimi’s Golightly Café, which can be found at: http://sharonauberle.blogspot.com.
    In the second part of the show, we talk with poet-publisher Michael Czarnecki of upstate New York about his 14-week, 48-state reading tour.
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    36 min

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An almost weekly poetry podcast that features interviews with poets, reviews of poetry books, examinations of individual poems, and investigations of themes in poetry. Sit back, relax, and let poetry…